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The tranquil Water Lily Pond in Buck Garden showcasing a beautiful spectrum of autumn color and reflections.

A picture of me (Sing Lin) in Buck Garden.

秋葉鮮紅得如此驕艷，如此風情。

Red leaves in Buck Garden.

秋正濃

The giant Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in Buck Garden. This is one of two mature, dawn redwood trees growing behind the Visitors Center in Buck Garden in New Jersey stands over 100 feet tall with a trunk girth over 12 feet. The Dawn Redwood is one of three species of redwood including Coastal Redwood of California, Giant Sequoia of California and Dawn Redwood.

The Dawn Redwood (水杉) trees were thought to be extinct for millions of years until 1941 when a grove ofthese trees was discovered growing in remote parts of Sichuan Province in China. When it was discovered extant, it was heralded as a "living fossil". In 1947 the Arnold Arboretum sponsored an expedition to China to collect seeds from this thought-to-be-extinct, prehistoric, tree. The dawn redwoods growing in Buck Garden are a result of that seed expedition. Through years of sharing seed and propagating with other arboreta the dawn redwood returned to North America and became available in the nursery trade.

Buck Garden is one of the premier rock gardens in the United States. The Buck Garden valley was sculpted from an ancient glacial stream valley, where waterfalls once cascaded out of Moggy Hollow to the East, then subsided, leaving behind rock faces, outcroppings, ponds and a stream.

It took the eye of a geologist, Mr. Leonard J. Buck, fascinated by mineral-topography-plant relationships, to see the valley's potential to showcase the finest of human-bred cultivars and nature's prettiest wild plants.

The wide rock bench of the Big Rock, the northern wall of the valley in Buck Garden left by the ancient glacier.Many low creeping flowering plants coat and blanket the rocks. Some plants shape themselves to fit in with therocks and naturalize on this wide rock bench.

Brilliant hues of yellow and gold in Buck Garden.

Another view of one of the two the giant DawnRedwoods in Buck Garden.

Lush green meadow in the spring.

The Moggy Brook, a small stream bordered by hand-made rock walls, seems almost out of a storybook. It is lined with the delicate-looking, black-stemmed maidenhair fern and bright blue forget-me-nots.

Beautiful pink and white dogwoods in Buck Garden in April.

Along the Primrose Path, there are naturalized dogwood and wild geraniums. Tall candelabra primroses surround the peeling orange trunks of the river birch 'heritage' on the swamp's edge.

A lot of the plants Mr. Buck put in were gifts from other plantsmen, and that the azaleas and rhododendrons came from breeders around the country, many identified only by numbers.

Reflection of the beautiful pink dogwood and white dogwood on the lily pond.

A close-up view of the leaves of Dawn Redwood.

Leonard J. Buck Garden in Far Hills is a garden of splendor and inspiration-- a landscape of art, sprung from a love of the beauty of plants and a reverence for nature.

The geologist who bought the land was Mr. Leonard J. Buck. As a trustee of the New York Botanical Gardens in the 1930's, he met Mr. Zenon Schreiber, landscape architect, and together they created the garden in the valley. Mr. Buck discovered the layout of outcroppings, and the men chiseled and shoveled, picked and blasted to expose the basalt--once hot lava that formed the Second Watchung mountain about 175 million years ago.

Many beautiful and exotic flowers are blooming in the Buck Garden in different months. A description of the names of these flowers/plants and their locations in Buck Garden can be found at the following websites:

The Azalea Field, on the valley floor, has successional bloom in waves of pink, violet and white in springtime. Viburnums, rhododendrons, herbs, wildflowers, magnolias and perennials complete the layers of blossoms.